The physicist who in January declared he would open a clinic to begin work on human cloning to help infertile couples produce offspring has chosen his first patient: Himself. Richard Seed, a physicist, holds three degrees from Harvard University but has no medical degree or license, The Boston Globe reported. Nevertheless, he said Saturday at a meeting of the Association for Politics and Life Sciences that he would create an embryo by combining the nucleus of one of his cells with a donor egg. Seed said his wife, Gloria, would carry the embryo. The nature of Seed's work goes to the very heart of the controversy over the cloning of humans. Scientists, religious leaders, and elected officials have wrestled over the issue of what constitutes an ethical purpose for cloning. Cloning of human tissues for purposes of growing new materials has been going on for some time. Seed, whose venture has yet to attract any financial backing, said if federal laws do prevent him from his work, he will move his operations from Chicago to Mexico. The physicist has vowed to produce a human clone in two-and-a-half years. (c) Wired News